<p>Yesterday for the first time, a jet was powered by algal biofuel (40% algae/60% petro). It is estimated to have saved CO2 emissions equivalent to those produced by a car driven 30K miles. Importantly, use of this newly developed algal biofuel requires no modifications to the plane. And it was sold for the same price as regular jet fuel. Several airlines are beginning to order and use this combo fuel, created by Solazyme.
[Solazyme</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solazyme]Solazyme”>TerraVia - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>ok…I bought 1,000 shares…</p>
<p>Where is my commission??</p>
<p>lol…</p>
<p>I clicked a couple of buttons…you have been teched out…progress…</p>
<p>!!!
So it goes!</p>
<p>:)…</p>
<p>Asteroid 2005RU55 will miss us today by 201,000 miles. Good news indeed. Though it would solve at least a few of our problems, or at least put them in perspective.</p>
<p>The thoroughbred Royal Delta just sold this afternoon at the Keeneland Sales auction in Lexington, Ky for eight and a half million US dollars.</p>
<p>I am happy the asteroid missed us…I don’t quite understand the horse story as being good news…</p>
<p>And performersmom…I am down $400 so far on szym… Are you going to take the losses?</p>
<p>? Well, it is good news if you are selling racehorses. The industry has been in a slump, along with the general economy. And it was an American buyer. The horse just won one of the Breeder’s Cup races over the weekend. This was the third highest price ever, in a November Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale. In somewhat related news, the American stallion Kitten’s Joy had his stud fee doubled…to fifty thousand.</p>
<p>I love it it dstark- now YOU want a bail-out?!</p>
<p>Ahhh.ok cottonwood513.</p>
<p>Performersmom…
no bailout. I just want to socialize the losses and privatize the gains. ;)</p>
<p>I hope it’s not too political to say I think it’s good news the President’s health care reform was upheld by a conservative-leaning appeals court.</p>
<p>Snow in the Sierras with more on the way!</p>
<p>Good news for ski resorts and California agriculture</p>
<p>Three new chemical elements got their official names today. :)</p>
<p>[Magic</a> Johnson remains a living symbol of hope - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-plaschke-magic-johnson-20111106,0,2909848.column]Magic”>Magic Johnson remains a living symbol of hope)</p>
<p>"Magic Johnson has finished giving a speech in a high school gymnasium when he asks the students if they have any questions.</p>
<p>A girl shyly raises her hand and moves to The microphone.</p>
<p>“I don’t really have a question,” she says. “I just want to know if I can come up there and give you a hug.”</p>
<p>Within moments, the entire student body descends upon Johnson, grabbing his massive hands, clinging to his broad shoulders, embracing him from to shoes to smile, covering his massive body with admiration and love.</p>
<p>“And to think, 20 years ago, some people were afraid to touch me,” Johnson says.</p>
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<p>Where were you? It was 3 p.m. on the afternoon of Nov. 7, 1991, and if you lived in Los Angeles, you know where you were.</p>
<p>It was our Kennedy assassination moment, our Challenger space shuttle moment, a moment when the Southland lost its sports innocence.</p>
<p>Where were you? I was home on vacation after spending the summer covering the Dodgers for this newspaper. I was watching television while my two young children played in the background. Soon they were crying because their father was crying, and at the time I didn’t even know Magic Johnson.</p>
<p>The greatest Laker ever announced he was retiring at age 32 because he had contracted one of the most awful diseases imaginable.</p>
<p>“Because of the HIV virus that I have obtained, I will have to retire from the Lakers today,” Johnson said in a packed room at the Forum.</p>
<p>We shuddered. We froze. Then we called everyone we knew, and into the phone together, all of us at once, we screamed.</p>
<p>Did the most alive athlete in the history of Los Angeles really just announce he was dying?</p>
<p>At the time, it was assumed that everyone who had the HIV virus would eventually contract AIDS, which meant Magic Johnson would be gone in 10 years. Those were the statistics. That was the reality.</p>
<p>There was only one smile at the news conference, only one mention of hope. It came from Johnson himself, and we pitied him for it.</p>
<p>“I plan to go on living for a long time,” he said, and you probably did not believe him.</p>
<p>We did not know. How did he know?</p>
<p>Monday is not the 20th anniversary of a death, but perhaps the most stirring rebirth in the history of American sports.</p>
<p>Twenty years after contracting a disease that was supposed to kill him, Magic Johnson is killing the disease by using his celebrity to raise millions for AIDS research."</p>
<p>I worked in news then. Our newsroom went electric, we devoted two newscasts almost entirely to Magic, AIDS, HIV, perceptions, fear, prejudice. Of course, we got criticized for it - people called in saying that we went overboard (maybe we did), that we were being overly sympathetic to sinners, that Magic deserved what he got, etc. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t put that moment on the same level as Kennedy assassination or 9/11. But I certainly remember realizing the gravity of what we were reporting.</p>
<p>I live in Magic’s home state, and everyone I know was glued to the TV when that news broke.</p>
<p>I hope I’m allowed to post personal positive developments. </p>
<p>My Bil received a heart transplant last week. We are all over the moon about this. He understandably is so emotional. Now he will be able to see his children graduate from HS and college.</p>
<p>I am not a religious person. It was a miracle, it truly was, everything had to go his way and it did. He was very close to dying and now he is feeling better than he has in 20 years. </p>
<p>We are so grateful to the family that donated the organs. 8 people will live because of the hard decision they had to make.</p>
<p>Article in today’s NYT is about fairly recent immigrants to the US who are multi-millionaires, and who speak little English. How they became rich…</p>